Andy Capp by Reg Smythe for January 31, 2015

Um… wrong interview.

I’ll give a sense of achievment to the first officer who busts me …….. and you can use me to test your new alcohol level machine and see if it can read a really high level ……

The Saturday morning free zoo…………..

They celebrate it big time in Brazil, and many countries in the Carribean. Brazil is the best, if you get a chance GO!

(Interview)Andy— I’ll set up new rules to get the habitual drinkers off the streets and into the bars where they should be,,,,,,

Andy’s spent more time than any of them.

Finally a punch line with some PUNCH to it! This was the funniest Andy I’ve seen in months. I love the “inmates running the asylum” feel to this. The interviewers have even less of a clue than Andy himself (and here we always thought that was impossible!)

Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) celebration in Galveston TX is no slouch.Link

“Well, Offishers. I thunk I can prowide… Hic!”xxx

(At 49 comments I doubt anyone will ever see this, but here goes.)

Reading “Andy Capp” over the years I’ve found some interesting differences between British and American English, but this one surprised me: My “Shorter Oxford Dictionary” shows both ‘tch’ and ‘tsk’ but my “American Heritage 4th” shows only ‘tsk’. Oddly, the Oxford shows ‘tsk tsk’ but not ‘tch tch’. (I have many other dictionaries I could refer to, but I have found these the best for my needs.)